Networked Christmas Tree Controlled By Twitter

An anonymous reader writes "What's Twitter good for? How about crowd sourcing control of your Christmas tree. Dangerous Prototypes built an open source, networked Christmas tree that you can control from Twitter. Send a color or hexadecimal color code to @tweet_tree, then watch the color change on the live video stream. This project is based on an updated version of the open source business card size web server covered previously."

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pinging christmas tree

[sopssa]

Judging from the comments, it seems his christmas tree replies to pings quite fast too

Pinging 192.168.1.126 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.126: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=100
Reply from 192.168.1.126: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=100
Reply from 192.168.1.126: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=100
Reply from 192.168.1.126: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=100

Re:oh, you are so gonna get slashdotted...

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry honey, no Christmas this year. The tree was slashdotted.

All this investment

[hwyhobo]

All this investment just to replace "finger".

Re:Down with Twitter

[dumuzi]

So just to clarify, the number of possibilities that Twitter has is approximately 1.0160469088 tonne, or 35.71 bushels (corn), or equivalent to the weight of 5555.5 wamprats, like a small car.

Check out MY networked RGB tree!

[Miamicanes]

My tree isn't publicly-networked, but I'm pretty proud of it and love to show it off :-)

Each light has its own microcontroller & RGB led. The lights are autonomous, but can be orchestrated by the controller.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5qR9_8KGPU

Re:oh, you are so gonna get slashdotted...

[Megaweapon]

Well it is only running MINIX. Oh Tanenbaum, Oh Tanenbaum...